Numbers 32:24

24 Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”

Numbers 32:24 in Other Translations

King James Version (KJV)
24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
English Standard Version (ESV)
24 Build cities for your little ones and folds for your sheep, and do what you have promised."
New Living Translation (NLT)
24 Go ahead and build towns for your families and pens for your flocks, but do everything you have promised.”
The Message Bible (MSG)
24 So, go ahead. Build towns for your families and corrals for you livestock. Do what you said you'd do."
American Standard Version (ASV)
24 Build you cities for your little ones, and folds for your sheep; and do that which hath proceeded out of your mouth.
GOD'S WORD Translation (GW)
24 Build cities for your families and stone fences for your flocks, but do what you have promised."
Holman Christian Standard Bible (CSB)
24 Build cities for your dependents and folds for your flocks, but do what you have promised."
New International Reader's Version (NIRV)
24 "So build up cities for your women and children. Make sheep pens for your flocks. But do what you have promised to do."

Numbers 32:24 Meaning and Commentary

Numbers 32:24

Build ye cities for your little ones, and folds for
your sheep
For their safety and security, as they proposed to do:

and do that which proceedeth out of your mouth;
all that they had promised.

Numbers 32:24 In-Context

22 then when the land is subdued before the LORD, you may return and be free from your obligation to the LORD and to Israel. And this land will be your possession before the LORD.
23 “But if you fail to do this, you will be sinning against the LORD; and you may be sure that your sin will find you out.
24 Build cities for your women and children, and pens for your flocks, but do what you have promised.”
25 The Gadites and Reubenites said to Moses, “We your servants will do as our lord commands.
26 Our children and wives, our flocks and herds will remain here in the cities of Gilead.

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